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oapen-20.500.12657-487622022-07-21T14:00:48Z The Anguished and the Enchanted Bowker, M.H. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, hatred of development, literary criticism, Little Prince, psychoanalysis, regression bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child & developmental psychology bic Book Industry Communication::Y Children's, Teenage & educational::YF Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories::YFH Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage) "In The Anguished and the Enchanted, M.H. Bowker offers a lengthy critical essay and richly annotated English translation of a lost Finnish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Featuring a substantial Translator’s Preface, M.H. Bowker develops a psychoanalytic lens through which to regard Saint-Exupéry’s classic work, offering a more nuanced and less ""fable-esque"" text than any translation and interpretation to date. On Bowker’s reading, dark and primitive unconscious forces — including neglect and abuse at home, the hatred of maturation and development, the projection of feelings of worthlessness onto others, the creation of an absurd and futile world, and more — infest the story, not unlike the Baobab trees dreaded by the little prince. Those already familiar with The Little Prince will find in The Anguished and the Enchanted a new way of regarding what has perhaps become a favorite or even a beloved book. Those unfamiliar with the original work will discover a sometimes tragic, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes harrowing account of the lengths to which persons will go in their struggle to find — or to escape from — meaningful places for themselves in the world of adults." 2021-05-20T11:43:59Z 2021-05-20T11:43:59Z 2021 book 9781953035554 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48762 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0311.1.00.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0311.1.00 10.21983/P3.0311.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781953035554 ScholarLed 120 Brooklyn, NY open access
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"In The Anguished and the Enchanted, M.H. Bowker offers a lengthy critical essay and richly annotated English translation of a lost Finnish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Featuring a substantial Translator’s Preface, M.H. Bowker develops a psychoanalytic lens through which to regard Saint-Exupéry’s classic work, offering a more nuanced and less ""fable-esque"" text than any translation and interpretation to date.
On Bowker’s reading, dark and primitive unconscious forces — including neglect and abuse at home, the hatred of maturation and development, the projection of feelings of worthlessness onto others, the creation of an absurd and futile world, and more — infest the story, not unlike the Baobab trees dreaded by the little prince.
Those already familiar with The Little Prince will find in The Anguished and the Enchanted a new way of regarding what has perhaps become a favorite or even a beloved book. Those unfamiliar with the original work will discover a sometimes tragic, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes harrowing account of the lengths to which persons will go in their struggle to find — or to escape from — meaningful places for themselves in the world of adults."
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